Viva Sexuality: A Bilingual Sex Positive Tumblr

For those of looking to do research on sexuality in terms of your writing/characters, or just in general, I have been made aware of a new tumblr out there called Viva Sexuality!

We are two sex educators striving to create a collection of sex-positive information for the masses. 

We are also a non-discriminatory, bilingual (Spanish and English) sex blog eager to answer any and all questions ranging from sexual health to emotional intelligence.

Somos dos educadoras sexuales en una misión por recopilar y presentar una colección de información sexo-positiva para las masas.

Somos un blog inclusivo y bilingüe, dispuesto a responder cualquier pregunta que tengas, desde salud sexual, hasta inteligencia emocional.

I think its a great idea and worth checking out. :) - Pen

Nonsexual Intimacy

greenchestnuts:

For Asexual Awareness Week, Elizabeth Barrette, aka ysabetwordsmith, posted a list of types of nonsexual intimacy that I found really interesting both as an asexual and as a writer:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Article: Writing Gay Characters

Since I identify as bi myself, I thought this was a very interesting article. Might help someone out. :)

- Pen

emptymanuscript:

asexual-not-a-sexual:

I’ve recieved a lot of requests for a masterpost. 

So…I made one. 

Yeah. 

Like always, contact me with any changes. 

Like always, if you’re going to complain that demisexuality isn’t real, polysexuals are just confused, trans* people are liars, or asexuals need to get laid…. Just, I dunno, stop. 

Not sure why I feel the need to post this, just do. *shrug* The more you know, right? Maybe to explain my tendency to use the singular they? I dunno. Also I suppose because the first poster hit a chord, blaming the split congress. I heard a right wing talking head today, talking about how you couldn’t just pick your identification. He was talking in specific about illegal immigrants not being able to choose to identify as American but I think it would probably hold in general. He felt that identity did not have any emotional basis. You were or you weren’t and a piece of paper dictated that. While my stance on immigration is probably my least liberal ideal, that really deeply bothered me. Being a citizen of the United States is a matter of paper, no argument from me. Being an American… no, I don’t think so. That’s cultural. I feel that you are what you feel. And I think that goes triple for this^ kind of identity. And I have little doubt this man I heard (and I guess was obviously bothered by) would just nix all of this. “You can’t just pick….” But I think that’s the thing he and everyone who believes the same misses. I don’t think you do “pick.” While I do go against the party line and think that there is choice involved, I don’t think you pick, I think that you are what you are, you nuance and you evolve and you understand yourself better but you aren’t picking so much as trying to label what is there. It’s self education or classification not a shopping trip or as I think he would put it with a shopping metaphor: shop lifting. I don’t know. I don’t even know where I’m going with that. I didn’t really intend to say any of this. It just kind of poured out. Sorry about that. It just… I don’t like the idea that somewhere there is a piece of paper that can describe me. If it takes me a whole book to describe nothing but the simulation of a human, how belittling is it to say an official document can describe a real human? Hmmph. I’ll shut up now.

Shades of Asexuality

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